China Can Sink Our Aircraft Carriers...This kind of gets frightening.

Right, and don't take this the wrong way - but the U.S has been able to wipe out any other country since before I was born - for some that became a
fear - for others it was simply an unfair fact of life that was to be respected as you would anything else that could kill you.

It is interesting to see an American in fear of someone elses military...unprecedented in the last 20-30??

The reality is still however, that hitting a USN Carrier with a ballstic missile, will not be an easy task, even without the electronic
countermeasures, and then getting past SM-3 and SM-2 missiles. Not saying the threat should be disregarded, however, hitting an object moving at 35
knots with a ballstic missile, is possible, but not some walk in the park either. I think the Navy has been quietly working on this threat for some
time now.

However, I thought that I was reading how US and military sources are now saying that they now feel (in light of reassessment of the level of
advancement in Chinese military tech - those missiles and the J-20 for example) that the USA can no longer assume it will automatically maintain
military superiority in regards it's navy/carrier/overseas theatres...

By the way, did anyone else notice how soon after the mysterious West coast US off-shore missile sighting the US top brass came out saying that they
had re-assessed the capability/progress the Chinese had made with the DF-21D ASBM - does anyone else think it could be because they witnessed a
test/demo firing of one?

Didn't the US military get quoted as saying something like "We know what it was, it wasn't ours, but we know it isn't posing a direct threat"? -
which would fit in with a jointly arranged/expected demo of the system?

However, I thought that I was reading how US and military sources are now saying that they now feel (in light of reassessment of the level of
advancement in Chinese military tech - those missiles and the J-20 for example) that the USA can no longer assume it will automatically maintain
military superiority in regards it's navy/carrier/overseas theatres...

By the way, did anyone else notice how soon after the mysterious West coast US off-shore missile sighting the US top brass came out saying that they
had re-assessed the capability/progress the Chinese had made with the DF-21D ASBM - does anyone else think it could be because they witnessed a
test/demo firing of one?

Didn't the US military get quoted as saying something like "We know what it was, it wasn't ours, but we know it isn't posing a direct threat"? -
which would fit in with a jointly arranged/expected demo of the system?

No, absolutely no one who is knowledgable about it, thinks it was a DF-21 launch. I had read about the DF-21 well before that ever happened. And
Chinas modernizing their military has been going on for quite a while, and yes we cant just assume we will always have superiority around there. Any
country that just assumes anything, will lose. the US Navy has been working on measures against the DF-21 for some time.

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